Destiny commands... and imposes a sacred obligation to show up in the face of one's desire for a normal, casual life... there are other forces afoot of which consciousness has only the dimmest of understandings.

The goal of individuation is wholeness, as much as we can accomplish, not the triumph of the ego.

Fear of our own depths is the enemy.

The world is more magical, less predictable, more autonomous, less controllable, more varied, less simple, more infinite, less knowable, more wonderfully troubling than we could have imagined being able to tolerate when we were young.

What I refuse to face within myself will meet me in the exterior world through you, not as you are, but as I have so construed you.

We are all meaning-seeking, meaning creating creatures and when we experience the loss of meaning, we suffer.

There is some debate in professional circles about whether the so-called “midlife crisis” exists.